Very Anoying Problem

Tusky

Ive been having this really anoying problem playing games for the past few days. Basically when i start one up it will stall a bit on the main screen , after this has happened a few times all the colours go bonkers and my whole system freezes.... I have no idea whats wrong !

I have tried installing latest drivers and scanning for virus's..any ideas ? I have new games I really want to play!

Im running XP
specs are

athlon 1800 xp
512 mb ram
gf 4ti4200
40 gb hard drive

thanks in advance.

Orion

Obvious question first - what did you do last before it started doing this?

Tusky

Macros42 wrote:

Obvious question first - what did you do last before it started doing this?

I dont think I did anything major really... All ive been doing is transfering stuff off and to the pc...thats it.

Orion

The fact that the screen is going mad may indicate a video card problem. Have you tried another card?

Tusky

not yet - will try tomorrow. I opened a game in windowed mode and when the colour went mad it happened to the whole screen , desktop included...not just the window with the game running,...dunno if that helps ?

Tusky

one more thing - Its breaking even with games that used to work...for example I tried ti play Battlefield Vietnam which ive been playing on high settings for about a year and it didnt work..

i get this error msg when i try to play a game after the error has happened

"The client failed to allocates AGP memory

The Ryzom client can't allocate AGP memory. Check in your computer BIOS that AGP memory has been reserved. If not, reserve between 16 and 32 Mo of AGP memory. If it is already done, try to update your chipset drivers."

Tusky

ok - I tried putting a fresh graphics card in and things work grand...pitty I cant afford a new one !

Does this mean my old one is fecked ? is there any hope for it ?

Optikus

Did you OCing your graphics card at all, dose the card have a fan on it if so is this fan still working?

Tusky

Optikus wrote:

Did you OCing your graphics card at all, dose the card have a fan on it if so is this fan still working?

didnt overclock - fan is still spinning like a mad yolk

Optikus

Tusky wrote:

one more thing - Its breaking even with games that used to work...for example I tried ti play Battlefield Vietnam which ive been playing on high settings for about a year and it didnt work..

i get this error msg when i try to play a game after the error has happened

"The client failed to allocates AGP memory

The Ryzom client can't allocate AGP memory. Check in your computer BIOS that AGP memory has been reserved. If not, reserve between 16 and 32 Mo of AGP memory. If it is already done, try to update your chipset drivers."

That Ryzom error looks like you might need to change your agp latency in the BIOS to 32mb, have you tried that.

Tusky

Optikus wrote:

That Ryzom error looks like you might need to change your agp latency in the BIOS to 32mb, have you tried that.

how do I go about doing that ?

pickarooney

Increase the AGP aperture setting in the BIOS a bit?

KdjaCL

Go into BIOS and go to advanced peripheral settings. At the bottom should be AGP Aperture set it to double your video cards ram ie 64mb card set it to 128.


kdjac

Optikus

If that dose not work try setting APG Aperture size to a Quater of your overall Ram size (so 512Mb or Ram would be 128Mb AGP Aperture) or change the APG Latency which is also located in the BIOS to 32Mb.

Orion

Tusky wrote:

ok - I tried putting a fresh graphics card in and things work grand...pitty I cant afford a new one !

Does this mean my old one is fecked ? is there any hope for it ?

Not necessarily. As the other guys said check the BIOS settings. If you haven't changed anything I could simply be a driver issue. Make sure you have mfgs latest driver. Is the other card you put in AGP or PCI? Could be a problem with your AGP port also. Probably just a Windows driver rather than hardware.